Stamp News Australasia - May 2024

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Roo 10/- CofA Dark Grey and *Aniline* Pink at $1,000 UNDER Cat! - The very last, December 1937 Emergency printing, before the issue of the 10/- Robes in early 1938, due to unexpected technical issues, about printing that one, on the new to the printers, chalky faced paper. ACSC advises most of this Roo printing was withdrawn and destroyed, when the long-awaited Royalist ‘Coronation Robes’ design was FINALLY printed, and rush issued. Quite superb perfs and centering and colour as you can see. What a Pretty looker - incredibly deep and vivid rich unfaded colours - glows even in normal lighting, and it lights up like a volcano under UV light. I have a dozen other 10/- mint CofA, and next to them under UV, this one glows like a VOLCANO! I’ve never seen the grey this deep on any ANY CofA 10/-. Attractive flat fresh MVLH original gum. Scan does no justice at all to the deep colours. The pink ‘suffuses’ to the reverse, as these must do of course. This final printing was also on paper markedly thinner than the usual printing, hence the watermark is far more evident from the face, as we see here. The MEGA million $$s, Stuart Hardy, Hugh Morgan and ‘GOLDFARM’ and Peter O’Rourke and the ‘Artemis’ stupendous Roo collections did *NOT* have this shade in mint or used, or ‘Specimen’ - all were totally absent. Clearly a super rare tiny printing and shade. Fresh bright MVLH, flat and fresh, a GEM, and a truly gorgeous stamp, to suit the VERY fussiest buyer. One for the bottom drawer!

ACSC 50E, Cat $2,750 in hinged normal grade, and normal centering. $1,000 UNDER cat, for a gem condition example. $US1,135 at $A1,750 - Stock 982EQ

Australia used coll 1913-2013 in 3 x Seven Seas Albums. Ret $1,500 for just $299! - The album pages and 3 binders EMPTY are retail $300 alone. 1913 to 2013 collection on a set of ‘Seven Seas Stamps’ album pages, and the stamp issues 1995 to 2013 the collector has stored in envelopes here, for future placement. A good general range collection, from Roos and KGV heads, and pre-war commems, and Definitives to £2 - a great nucleus to build upon over time.

Only a VERY few pages scanned here - www.tinyurl.com/3xOzzie - just to give you a general overview of contents. Very many 100s of stamps, with good sets and better items among them.

Usual mixed condition here and there, and with some bonus blocks and extras not shown here, of many sets. Owner had noted stamps were cat $1,216, and with $300 of albums you have a $1,500 nucleus to build on here. Bought well so out it goes at just $A299 – you save about $1,200! 100 years of stamps, at just $3 a year - $US195 at $A299 – Stock 561ZB

Estate carton of Australia Post Year albums **42% under retail!** - Bought an estate that had a nice clean run of these super popular items. Many now buy these to easily keep up to date, year by year, or buy them for the kids etc.

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Contents Articles Stamps in the News : Margo Campbell ......................................6 Milestones of Palaeontology : Michael Kogan ...................... 18 Brazil’s Zeppelin Stamps : Christer Brunström .......................24 Postal Stationery : Ian McMahon ............................................... 40 Greetings from Great Britain : Michael Dodd ........................ 46 The Golden Age of Piracy : Christer Brunström .....................50

Information News..................................................................................................... 14 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......54 Events .................................................................................................. 55 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......56 Subscriptions .............................................................................. ......58 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............62 Front cover: Mount Erebus Extremophiles takes a closer look at scientific research happening in the extreme conditions of Antarctica.

It’s an extraordinary mission to study the extraordinary. Scientists have discovered communities of microorganisms - bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi and algae - living in the steaming soils of Mount Erebus. The organisms are extremophiles that have adapted to inhospitable conditions, both Antarctic and geothermal. Given the remoteness and isolation, it’s possible they have evolved to be unique, as has the environment they inhabit. The Ross Dependency stamp issue for 2024 puts the lens on this fascinating scientific research.

Date of issue: 4 September 2024

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Despatched! Royals in the United Kingdom

Reported at www.dailymail.co.uk Royal Mail has partnered with Historic Royal Palaces to produce special stamps with subjects including the Princes in the Tower, Henry VIII’s wife Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey and Sir Walter Raleigh -all either executed or murdered within the walls of the Tower of London.

Prince Edward and his brother Richard – who were 12 and nine years old when they were murdered, supposedly on the order of their uncle Richard III in 1483 – feature on one stamp.

Three more feature Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife executed in 1536, Lady Jane Grey, the ‘Nine Days’ Queen’ executed at the age of 17 in 1554, and explorer and statesman Sir Walter Raleigh, imprisoned in the Tower and executed at Westminster in 1618 after falling out of favour with James I. Four other stamps show different parts of the building – The White Tower, Tower Green and The King’s House, St John’s Chapel and Traitors’ Gate, while two more feature Yeoman Warders and

one of the Tower’s ravens.

A Royal Mail spokesperson said: ‘Over the centuries the Tower has played many different roles – from impenetrable fortress to royal residence, menagerie of exotic animals to place of execution, Royal Mint to home of the Crown Jewels.

‘These stamps celebrate the myth and legend, ceremony and tradition of one of the most famous buildings in the world.’

Begorrah! Royals in Monaco Reported at www.hellomonaco.com

This September will mark the 40th anniversary of the Princess Grace Irish Library with the release of a special commemorative stamp, a fitting tribute to the cultural institution that has become one of Monaco’s cherished gems.

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cess Grace of Monaco, known for her deep ties to Ireland through her paternal ancestry.

The Princess Grace Irish Library, inaugurated on November 20, 1984, by Prince Rainier III, was created in memory of his late wife and her affection for Irish culture.

Nestled in the heart of Monaco, the library has grown into a beacon of Irish literature, music, and culture, housing a rich collection of books, musical scores, and reference materials that celebrate the spirit of Ireland.

The stamp and calendar of commemorative events serve as a poignant reminder of Prince Rainier’s efforts to promote Irish culture as a tribute to his beloved wife.

Special Ops: Royals in Jordan Reported at https://jordanpost. com.jo

Jordan Post Company has announced the launch of a new issue of stamps commemorating the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC).

The last two decades have seen the need for special operation units’ intervention on the rise. A

need which led to his majesty King Abdullah II’s vision of an international center of excellence that provides up-to-date training in counter-terrorism, special operations, and irregular warfare tactics, techniques and procedures.

His majesty’s vision came to fruition with the establishment of King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC); a state-of-theart training facility located in Amman, Jordan, that combines cutting-edge training and support structures making it one of the world’s leading special operations and counterterrorism training centres.

The Golden Stool: Royals in Ghana

Reported at https://ghanapost.com.gh In honour of His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Ghana Post has released a groundbreaking Ghana Commemorative Cryptostamp, marking a significant milestone as Africa’s first Stamp News 7

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Cryptostamp.

This initiative pays homage to the remarkable contributions of His Majesty, encapsulated within a unique blend of physical and digital innovation.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was born on the 6th May 1950. He is in direct succession to the 17th century founder of the Ashanti Empire, Osei Tutu I. At the age of five he was sent into the Royal household to prepare for his future role as Asantehene.

On April 26, 1999 he was enstooled as the 16th occupant of the Golden Stool, assuming a pivotal role in the Ashanti Kingdom.

This stamp is therefore to honour His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for his patriotism and impact on 25 years of ascension to the throne.

At the heart of this commemorative stamp lies a fusion of traditional philately and cutting-edge blockchain technology. Each physical stamp is linked to a digital twin stored in the blockchain, a so-called NFT (Non-Fungible Token).

In the aftermath of war: Cyprus Reported at www.cypruspost.post

2024 marks 50 years since the Turkish invasion of July 20, 1974. This constitutes half a century of illegal occupation of 36.2% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus by the Turkish army.

Cyprus Post have issued a special stamp to mark this anniversary, emphasising the fate of the approximately 170,000 refugees alienated from their ancestral homes and properties – more than a third of the population – who were forcibly driven away, while the fate of 758 Greek Cypriot missing persons remains unknown.

In the fifty years since 1974, more than twenty-three thousand Greek Cypriots who were enclaved in the Karpasia region have been gradually forced to abandon their homes and find refuge in 8 Stamp News

the government-controlled area.

Today, only 331 persons remain enclaved in the area while hundreds of thousands of Turkish settlers have been brought in.

The Republic of Cyprus continues its efforts for a just and lasting solution to the Cyprus problem in accordance with the Resolutions and Decisions of the United Nations.

In the aftermath of war: Afghanistan Reported at https://tolonews.com

Afghan Post says that after the return of the Islamic Emirate, the challenges in domestic and international postal services have been resolved.

In a press release a spokesperson said that the company now provides postal services not only to all provinces and districts within the country but also to 192 countries worldwide.

“There were issues where we were not providing services to some countries, and postal services to countries were also suspended for us. But with

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the efforts of our colleagues, these problems have been resolved. The Universal Postal Union has a modern operational system that has been offered to 192 countries, and we are also a part of it.”

He said: “Before the Islamic Emirate came to power, this company was operating in eight sectors, but with the arrival of the Islamic Emirate, these sectors have increased to eighteen.”

There are also ten other private postal companies are also operating in the country.

Afghan Post has also announced that it is working to start postal services via air within the country and to reduce the process of sending mail abroad to less than a week.

Reported at https://apnews.com/ Afghanistan has been through everything. Now it wants to dust off its postal service and modernize.

In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have adopted a creative approach for connecting using mosques as drop points for

bills and cash, a “pay and pray” system.

Now the national postal service wants to phase this out by putting mailboxes on every street across the country, part of a plan to modernize a service long challenged by bureaucracy and war.

The aspirations include introducing access to shopping via e-commerce sites and issuing debit cards for online purchases. It will be a leap in a country where most of the population is unbanked, air cargo is in its infancy and international courier companies don’t deliver even to the capital, Kabul.

The changes mean Afghans will pay higher service fees, a challenge as more than half the population already relies on humanitarian aid to survive.

The postal service has 400 to 500 branches across the country and is key for completing administrative tasks like obtaining a passport or driver’s licence. It distributes up to 15,000 passports daily.

Another popular service is the certification of documents for admission to higher education or overseas institutions. The main Kabul branch has dedicated counters for it along with VIP lanes and a women-only area.

Post offices in Afghanistan are vital for women wanting to access services or products they would otherwise be denied, since they are often barred from entering ministries or other official premises.

But the spectre of the Taliban’s edicts targeting women and girls also looms at the Afghan Post.

At the entrance to the main Kabul branch, a sign tells women to correctly wear hijab. One picture shows a woman with a red cross over her visible face. The other has a green check mark over the face because only her eyes are seen.

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Cinderellas: Giving peace a chance Reported at www.printmag.com

Graphic artist, Johnny Selman, started Peace Post with his team at Selman design studio in 2016 as a way to work on something meaningful between client projects.

He said he wanted to “invest energy in something that expands your understanding and empathy for the world around us.”

“The team worked to research potential human rights, environmental and peace advocates for every country in the world, and research the artistic traditions of each of those countries.”

“We would pick an advocate from that research and create a document encompassing the advocate’s bio and information about the country and its art. We would then commission an illustrator to create the portrait.”

“I chose the postage stamp format as stamps have a rich history of recognizing notable people through portraiture. “ “The stamp is a unifying visual element where historical heavyweights like MLK are represented within the same simple frame as lesser-known advocates like Asma Khalifa, a Libyan women’s rights and peace activist.”

The work is intended as an educational resource with a travelling exhibition, book and website.

Cinderellas: On the road again Reported at www.startlandnews.com

Stamp collecting has always been cool, said Erika

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Ring, whose niche family business connects travellers to a network of souvenir stickers for more than 1,500 bucket-list destinations across the U.S. Olathe-based Travel Stamps prints and ships its commemorative keepsakes designing as many as 30 new stamps each month, honouring the travel milestones of its customers.

Two million stamps have already been sold, according to Travel Stamps, which also is launching a digital Stamp Tracker for collectors who want to use an online portal. Even more ambitious plans in the works, said Ring, who serves as the company’s chief operating officer.

Her father — Army veteran, world traveller, and outdoor enthusiast Shane Ring — founded the company in 2017 after working as a buyer for the Rocky Mountain Nature Association where he noted there were no options to collect a single sticker for a specific park that was consistent and no system that connected all interagency sites among the NPS, BLM, Forest Service, and state and city parks and museums.

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Eight years in, Travel Stamps has helped families celebrate one million trips to U.S. National Parks, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management sites, state parks and capitals, cities, museums, presidential libraries, and more locales.

Even though they’re designed as stamps, the pieces aren’t produced to be used within the U.S. Postal Service’s mail system — meaning collectors can’t send a letter or postcard with them; they’re purely meant to serve as keepsakes from memorable trips.

Disney with Chinese elements

Reported at www.thestandard.com. hk/ Six stamps and three stamp sheetlets featuring beloved classic Disney characters will be available at Hongkong Post next month.

The six mini stamps show Disney’s Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, Chip and Dale in traditional Chinese costumes celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The collection is made complete with a HK$10 stamp sheetlet featuring Mickey & Friends flying a dragon together and the HK$20 and HK$50 stamp sheetlets with a cutting in the shape of Mickey Mouse’s head, printed with 3D embossing.

Moreover, the HK$50 stamp sheetlet is adorned with 22-carat gold hot foil stamping, making it highly collectible.

China fights a foreign invasion

Reported at www.globaltimes.cn

China’s Ministry of State Security has claimed to have uncovered several cases in which foreign espionage and intelligence agencies used postal deliveries to carry out espionage activities, including mailing alligator snapping turtles, American

bullfrogs, and other species to China, with the aim to disrupt local ecosystem and biodiversity.

National security agencies have discovered that some packages and parcels from abroad have become channels for a clandestine biological invasion, threatening China’s ecological balance and biological security.

In recent years, some foreign organizations and individuals have been mailing exotic species such as red-eared sliders, alligator snapping turtles, American bullfrogs, fall armyworms, and red imported fire ants into China which may also pose serious threats to the safety of people’s lives and property, said the Ministry.

NB Margo’s note: Hong Kong University studies reveal a huge collector’s market for exotic reptiles in China https://www.svis.law.hku.hk/post/china-s-crazefor-snapping-turtles Chinese pet market is now worth more than 200 billion yuan (30 billion US dollars) per year, according to 2019 industry surveys. There are around two hundred million pet owners in China, and it is estimated that one in ten keeps reptiles.

Turtles are especially popular – not only are they considered symbols of longevity, but the Chinese Stamp News 11

Stamps in the News - Globally! annual parcel volume has surpassed 100 billion.

A night to remember in Romania

Reported at www.posta-romana.ro

are turtle experts - farming and breeding of turtles in China dates back thousands of years.

Research by HKU’s Species Victim Impact Statements (SVIS) Initiative has identified close to 100 species of turtle on sale in China. Two very popular species are common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) and alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii).

Your turtle is in the mail…

Reported at www.parcelandpostaltechnologyinternational.com Data from the State Post Bureau in China has revealed that parcel volumes reached over 100 billion pieces on August 13, 71 days earlier than in 2023.

According to the bureau, this achievement highlights “the prosperity and development of China’s express market and the continuous improvement of quality and efficiency” in e-commerce delivery.

Since the beginning of this year, China’s postal express industry has continued to develop rapidly, with both quantitative growth and qualitative improvement. The average monthly business volume has exceeded 13 billion pieces, and the average monthly business income has exceeded ¥100bn (US$14bn), a record high.

Tuesday’s milestone marks the fourth consecutive year that China’s 12 Stamp News

“Poșta Română” joins the Night of Museums in the Villages project and invites Romanians to discover the beauty and authenticity of the Romanian countryside during the second running of the event, which will take place on August 31, 2024.

Through the “Send the Word” Campaign, the Romanian Post will distribute 20,000 postcards to the small communities of Romania, with the aim of promoting and arousing the residents’ interest in local cultural values.

The role of the “Trimitem vorbă” campaign is to make the public aware of the existence of this national cultural event, to stimulate the curiosity of the inhabitants of as many rural communities as possible to visit the museums and cultural facilities in the area and to participate in the cultural events organized near them. “ With a history of 162 years, Poșta Română remains the only courier company and postal services in the country that reaches, through the postman, the most remote regions. We are happy to be, by distributing unique postcards, the heralds of a project that embodies the essence of the Romanian spirit.

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Australia Post at a loss

AP press release reported at www.miragenews.com Recently Australia Post announced its 2024 financial year results, reporting a pre-tax loss of $88.5 million, compared to last year’s $200.3 million deficit.

This improved performance is attributed to the implementation of its Post26 strategy and first phase reforms, which are focused on delivering a simplified and sustainable business while reducing costs and improving services.

The Letters business faces ongoing challenges as fewer customers send letters, and foot traffic to Post Offices has continued to decline. The twospeed nature of the business is becoming even more pronounced with revenue from Parcels continuing to grow, increasing by 3.3% in FY24.

Australia Post is delivering on its Post26 strategy, with disciplined cost management and ongoing simplification of the business. Productivity improvements under Post26 drove business efficiencies of $268.9 million in FY24, up from $236.7 million in the previous year. Despite significant inflationary and other economic pressures, this cost reduction was achieved while still investing $306.1 million in new facilities, technology and fleet.

The first phase of modernisation reforms took effect in April 2024 and Australia Post expects to see improved financial sustainability across the medium term.

Domestic parcel volumes increased by 1.8% in FY24, contributing to Parcels revenue of $6.46 billion, an increase of 3.3% on the year prior.

Australia Post has responded to customer demand for more reliability and convenience, launching Australia Post Metro, a new next-day delivery service available to contracted customers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,

Adelaide and Perth. New services are planned in the coming 12 months.

The Letters business remains in decline, with volumes dropping a further 12.9% to 1.76 billion.

Letters losses were $361.8 million, a slight improvement on the year prior due to the postage rate increase.

The average household now receives fewer than two addressed letters a week, which is expected to halve in the next five years. The New Delivery Model (NDM), introduced as part of the modernisation reforms, is being progressively rolled out across the country. NDM sees Posties deliver priority mail, express letters and parcels to addresses every business day, and standard letters and unaddressed mail every second business day. This maintains high customer service and enables Posties to deliver more parcels during their rounds.

Australia Post has the country’s largest retail network, operating more locations nationally than the major supermarket brands combined. Over-thecounter transactions have fallen by 4.9% across the Corporate Post Office network in FY24 and by 28.7% since 2019 as more customers transact online.

Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Paul Graham said that while it’s pleasing to see improved business performance, Australia Post is still staring into structural challenges that are not going away.

“Our Post26 strategy and the historic phase one modernisation reforms have put the business on the right track, and we’re now starting to see green shoots as we turn around the business.

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philatelic news Strong Market Conditions At Abacus Auctions Abacus Auctions Auction 257 27-30 August 2024

Weighing in at 1½ kg and a hefty 452 pages, the recent Abacus catalogue presented more than 3,300 lots across stamps and postal history, numismatics, general collectables and sporting memorabilia.

In the Australian stamps, a postally used 6d Kangaroo monogram single sold for $2880 (all prices include 20% buyer’s premium) and a 10/with ‘SPECIMEN’ handstamp made $1620. The almost mythical 5d black-brown, the rarest of all KGV shades, punctured ‘OS’, achieved $10,800. A lovely corner block of 9 of the 6d Engraved Kookaburra, fetched $5040.

The Australian Postal History section was possibly the most voluminous ever offered at auction, ranging from meaty accumulations from Rodney Perry’s ‘Woodchip-Free Zone’ holdings to significant rarities.

The biggest surprise was a KGV 1d Die III punctured ‘OS/NSW’ on a postcard to America that soared to $5040 against a $750 estimate. The famous parcel tag with Third Watermark £1 grey and Small Multiple Watermark £2 took $12,000. An airmail wrapper to London with 2/- Bird and £1 Navigator more than tripled its estimate at $3600.

The featured collection here was “KGVI Usages & Rates” formed by Rod Perry and expanded by Andrew Tan from Singapore.

An extremely rare Empire Air Mail Scheme (EAMS) cover at the 7d rate that applied only to Hong Kong made the buyer very happy at $870. The collection included numerous exceptional destination items, notably a WWII cover to Russian-Occupied Poland that was 14 Stamp News

tion of Lindsay Chitty from New Zealand. This globally important subject attracted bidders from around the world, resulting in a very healthy outcome.

Leading results included $5040 for the only item recorded from an Indian POW in Hong Kong and the same for a cover carried on the first prisoner-exchange voyage of the Swedish ship ‘Gripsholm’; $3840 for an Australian Red Cross envelope with unobliterated text at the base; $2640 for an Allied propaganda leaflet dropped over Batapushed to $3840.

By contrast, the outstanding Clipper airmail cover with £1 and £2 Kangaroos, was a relative bargain at $18,000. The same buyer was also happy to pay $4080 for a large parcel piece bearing a £1 Robes on Thin Paper (Cat $3500).

Tasmania was the strongest of the Australian Colonies, highlighted by an expansive collection of datestamps on Pictorials. Highest price was $1380 for a part-strike of the rare ‘TEEPO[OKANA]’ cds.

An 1831 convict letter offered with 11 other scruffy pre-stamp items, attracted intense bidding despite its condition, dwarfing the $600 estimate to sell for $8400.

Australian Territories featured advanced collections of Christmas and Cocos Islands formed

by Bruce Haynes from Perth. A rather nondescript WWII cover from Australia inwards to Christmas Island inspired quite a battle, finally selling for $5520, or eleven times the estimate.

Under Cocos, a 1935 Silver Jubilee cover came in at a staggering $24,000 which was the highest price in the entire auction.

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philatelic news via; $1920 for an Australian cover to a POW on Timor; $4560 for a so-called “parachute bomb” cover dropped by the Japanese over Port Moresby; and $3000 for a postal card from Sarawak to Canada involved in a plane crash in Ireland!

China with 164 lots on offer was always going to attract strong competition, with the 1949 Provincial Issue for Kansu etc (Chan S68-69) making an impressive $9000. But the liveliest bidding was for the Shanghai Large Dragons: with estimates totaling $23,410, all but four lots sold for an aggregate $29,700.

Another desirable section was the Indian Feudatory States with 51 lots, most of which found new homes.

Bamra SG 1 sold for $2400; Bhopal SG 1 $1380; Bussahir SG 2 $1800 and SG 23 $2400 despite having obvious faults. Charkhari SG 1 & 2 made $3240 and $6300 respectively.

Under Japan, the Ryukyu Islands featured the primitive Kume 7s Scott 1X1 which went off for $1620, while the Yaeyama 30s #5X10 made $4560 or more than the catalogue value of US$2000.

Early issues from the Malayan Region were also 16 Stamp News

popular and a 1941 cover with Patriotic Fund 1c 2c & 5c labels was sold at $810 while a similar Netherlands Indies cover fetched a whopping $2400.

From New Zealand, the Chalon 2d pair imperforate between, despite a heavy cancel, saluted at $8100, or just over eight times the estimate, while the rare Samoa ‘G.R.I./1 Shilling’ did well at $10,800.

The unusually strong selection of early issues from South & Central America, attracted lively bidding from across the Americas and elsewhere. Most of these stamps had not been expertised but the clients were obviously satisfied with the bona fides of these often-primitive emissions.

As usual there were highlights a-plenty through the non-philatelic sections of the sale.

For instance, a KEVII Queensland Police Medal for Merit was snapped-up for $4080 and a British 1857 Polar Medal made $1740. A beautiful chunk of quartz glistening with gold sold for $6300 and a handsome 1998 Rolex watch now adorns the wrist of the buyer who exchanged $16,800 for it.

In the Australian coins, three 1967 Swan Pattern

Dollars sold for an average of $1600. The 1969 Yarralumla PNC, bought at a stamp fair for $5, returned its happy owner a $1795 profit.

Standout lot in the Australian banknotes was a $2 consecutive pair numbered ‘999999’ & ‘1000000’ that galloped to $10,200.

An array of British Commonwealth early-QEII banknotes attracted spirited bidding and Canada’s 1935 Princess Elizabeth $20, graded gFine, was a hit at $1620.

Autographs across many fields were popular, the highlight being an 1895 British cabinet card of the formidable cricketer, WG Grace, that sold for $3480, now gracing a new owner’s cabinet.

The popularity of Australian Rules “footy”

cigarette & trading cards is unabated, with many lots topping record prices that were set in the Abacus sale of February 2024.

In all, 2648 lots (80%) were sold at hammer prices of $1,846,888, which compares favourably with the total pre-sale estimates of $1,920,715.

The next Abacus sale is scheduled for early-December, an ideal time to buy Christmas presents. A catalogue will be sent on request by contacting info@abacusauctions.com.au or via the website www.abacusauctions.com.au The phone number is +61 (0)3 8513 0595. Consignments are now invited for the firm’s sales in 2025, scheduled for February, May, August and November.

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Milestones of Paleontology & related Philatelic items. Part One. Paleophilatelie (Paleophilately) is branch of Philately dedicated to collection of Philatelic items related to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

Paleontology, also spelled Palaeontology, scientific study of life of the geologic past that involves the analysis of plant and animal fossils, including those of microscopic size, preserved in rocks. It is concerned with all aspects of the biology of ancient life forms: their shape and structure, evolutionary patterns, taxonomic relationships with each other and with modern living species, geographic distribution, and interrelationships with the environment.

Paleontology is mutually interdependent with stratigraphy and historical geology because fossils constitute a major means by which sedimentary strata are identified and correlated with one another. Its methods of investigation include that of biometry (statistical analysis applied to biology), which is designed to provide a description of the forms of organisms statistically and the expression of taxonomic relationships quantitatively. (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Paleoanthropology, also spelled Palaeoanthropology, also called Human Paleontology, interdisciplinary branch of anthropology concerned with the origins and development of early humans. Fossils are assessed by the techniques of physical anthropology, comparative anatomy, and the theory of evolution.

(Encyclopaedia Britannica) Do you know when and which country issued the first dinosaur stamp? Do you know who was the first paleontologist honored on a stamp? These, and other interesting facts can be found throughout this article.

The first stamps issued in the mid-19th century have boring designs. They were rectangular or square in shape, depicting the leader of the country: king, queen, president, or had just a face value. Even though people around the world began collecting stamps almost immediately. The first philatelists tried to find production differences between stamps of the same design—color or paper variations, difference in perforation, some 18 Stamp News

errors on images, etc.

It took over 30 years until the first commemorative stamp was issued. In 1871, Peru issued a stamp showing a locomotive. Shortly after, many other postal authorities began issuing stamps dedicated to important events, local and worldwide famous places, landscapes, famous persons of the county, etc. Nowadays postage stamps are not only evidence of postal payment, but also ambassadors of the country. They tell us a story of the issuing country, shows us famous persons, landscapes and scenic sights, cultural and sporting events, and local flora and fauna.

The fossilized remains of prehistoric animals, especially large ones, such as dinosaurs or giant mammals, have always stirred the imagination of people, creating all sorts of myths and legends about Dragons, Cyclops, and ancient Giants. The well-preserved remains of the ancient inhabitants of the earth have very great scientific and material value. Some of them even have the status of national treasure.

Collecting valuable stamps can sometimes be a wise personal investment. However stamps, which are considered collectibles by the IRS, cannot be used as an investment for an IRA or even a self directed IRA retirement account. What is a self directed IRA retirement account? The SDIRA allows investments for retirement in alternative assets, but unfortunately collectibles such as stamps do not qualify.

Here is the list of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology related Philatelic milestones: 1922 USA, First postal stationery with prehistoric animals This is, very likely, the very first philatelic item related to Paleontology:2c prepaid envelope from the USA, produced by the Torrance Lime & Fertiliser Company, from Lomita city in California, which shows some prehistoric animals and Neanderthals. The next Paleontology related post stationery issued in Poland almost 50 years after, with fossil of ammonite on imprinted stamp.

The image on the cover is based on several earlier

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2c prepaid envelope from the USA, produced by the Torrance Lime & Fertiliser Company, from Lomita city in California, which shows some prehistoric animals and Neanderthals. Postal stationery from collection of Dr. Jon Noad from Calgary Canada

Above : Drawing by Robert Bruce HORSFALL for “A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere“, by Robert BERRYMAN Scoot, 1913, shows a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus) and a dire wolf (Canis dirus) fighting over a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) carcass in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Right: Neanderthal man as imagined in Chicago’s Field Museum diorama circa 1920.

illustrations and reconstructions: Neanderthal man as imagined in Chicago’s Field Museum diorama circa Stamp News 19

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Tetrapod dinosaur and marine shells

1920, and a drawing by Robert Bruce HORSFALL for A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere, by Robert BERRYMAN Scoot, 1913, shows a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus) and a dire wolf (Canis dirus) fighting over a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) carcass in the La Brea Tar Pits.

The La Brea tar pits are very famous because of the huge range of fossils, especially of predators like Smilodon.

By the way, the Sabre tooth cat (Smilodon) is the heraldic animal of California and it designated as the official state fossil in 1973.

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There is also a tetrapod dinosaur in the background, who lived much earlier as Smilodon and Neanderthal, and some marine shells on the foreground and as also part of the logo of the company.

The company used fossils of prehistoric animals to make their fertilizer. [A fertilizer is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.]

Very strange use of fossils in today’s point of view.

Many thanks to fellow collectors Peter Brandhuber from Germany and John Noad from Canada for their help finding information about the post stationery and some scans from their collections.

The only earlier item that can be consider is a post card from Germany (Postcards without imprinted stamps are not subject of philately, but Deltiology).Dinosaur, perhaps Plateosaurus, shown on its illustration and some Ad text underneath. The issue date of the postcard from Germany is unknown, sent in 1912 from Solingen.

Plateosaurus lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe.

Discovered in 1834 by Johann Friedrich Engel-

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hardt and described three years later by Hermann von Meyer, Plateosaurus was the fifth named dinosaur genus that is still considered valid. Although it had been described before Richard Owen formally named Dinosauria in 1842, it was not one of the three genera used by Owen to define the group, because at the time, it was poorly known and difficult to identify as a dinosaur. It is now among the dinosaurs best known to science: over 100 skeletons have been found, some of them nearly complete. The abundance of its fossils in Swabia, Germany, has led to the nickname Schwäbischer Lindwurm (Swabian lindworm).

193x USA, First meter franking with dinosaur From the nineteen thirties until the fifties, the Sinclair Oil Company used this meter franking, as well as regular advertisements to advertise

their motor oil. Dinosaur became so popular in USA that Sinclair registered him as a trademark in 1932. The corporation’s logo features the silhouette of a large green Sauropod dinosaur - Brontosaurus, based on the then-common idea that oil deposits beneath the earth came from the dead bodies of dinosaurs.

The corporation even sponsored dinosaurs excavation by famous American paleontologist Barnum Brown, who dug for dinosaur bones in summer 1934 at the Morrison formation at the place called now Howe Quarry.

This Brown’s expedition was big success.

More than 20 skeletons and 4.000 bones excavate there. One of the unearthed dinosaurs was Diplodocus - another long neck dinosaur, who had similar shape as Brontosaurus, but smaller in size.

This Brontosaurus of Sinclair Oil is commonly known as DINO. A life-size DINO appeared in the “Century of Progress” Chicago World’s Fair in 1933-1934, along with several other dinosaurs built by P.G. Alen, who was known for creating lifelike papiermâché animals for motion pictures.

Following the Chicago World’s Fair, in 1935 the company began published dinosaur stamps like labels – and a stamp album that could be filled only with colored dinosaur “stamps” issued one at a time weekly at Sinclair service stations.

This kind of “stamp” is known as a Cinderella in philatelic community and these are the first Cinderella set of stamps depicting prehistoric animals ever.

These were intended for children.

In each program when you went to a Sinclair station on week one you would be given a stamp album. Then on each 8 following week you would be given a new sheetlet of stamps.

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scientific and historical information to explain the dinosaurs and petroleum to children.

1946 USA, First FDCs (First Day Cover) with a dinosaur and prehistoric animal illustration On 10 August 1946, the U.S. Post Office Department issued a stamp to celebrate the Centenary of the Smithsonian Institution.

The stamp itself shows the Smithsonian’s buildings in Washington (Actually this stamp itself can be consider as a stamp of paleontologic thematic as the Institute has very large Paleobiology Department). Several FDCs with the Smithsonian stamp show some Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals on its illustrations. An illustration on the left side of the first FDC (shown above) shows a sauropod, most likely a

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Diplodocus. Stegosaurs and Morophus (prehistoric mammal) shown on others. Note: all these FDCs are personalised (made by some dealers or individuals). US Post doesn’t produce any FDCs and don’t make any commemorative postmarks associated with their stamps. On February 7, 1996 the U.S. Post Office Department issued a stamp to celebrate the 150 anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution. Similar to 1946, some dinosaurs can be seen on illustration of FDC covers. One of them, showing Tyrannosaurus is illustrated below.

1947, 1951 USSR, First Paleontologist on stamps Sometimes it is difficult to identify paleontologists on stamps, because they are shown on neutral background, or just a portrait. On other side, not every personality shown on stamps with

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fossil or prehistoric animal on the background is paleontologist.

The first stamp (known to me) showing a paleontologist was issued in the USSR on January 17, 1947. Actually it is a set of two stamps 30 kopejka (100 kopejka = 1 ruble), green and 50 kopejka sepia. These stamps show a portrait of A.P. Karpinskij (1847-1936), who is most known as First elected president of Russian Science Academy. However, he was also great geologist and paleontologist, who made some important discoveries in the Ural Mountains area of Russia. Note: there is nothing on the stamp that indicates Paleontology On 3 March 1952, Soviet Union issues a stamp titled “Greatest Russian scientist biologistpaleontologist: W.O. Kovalevskij” with a face value of 40 kopejka and this is actually the first stamp dedicated to a paleontologist.

Vladimir Onufreivich Kowalewskij (17841856) Russian paleontologist and supporter of Darwinism. He was the one who assumed horses appeared first in Europe, then migrated to North America, then came back to Europe. Evidence of this theory was found more then 100 100 years after his suicide due to some trouble in private and commercial life in Grube Messel by Darmstadt, Germany.

The first stamp of scientists with a prehistoric animal fossil in the background was issued in Romania on 29 July 1967, as part of a set of famous Romanian people. The green stamp with a value of 40 bani shows Romanian biologist and director of Museum of Natural History, Grigores

Antipa (1867-1944). Some websites and even philatelic books and catalogues mentioned this stamp as the first stamp depicting a paleontologist.

Actually, he was not a paleontologist at all he was a zoologist, ichthyologist, economist, ecologist, oceanology, museologist. He founded the Romanian school of Hydrobiology, Ichthyology and Oceanology, was pioneer in the field of museology, and the author of modern concepts in ecology, biosociology, biosphere.

As director of the Museum of Natural History in Bucharest, he had an important contribution to the organisation of a phylogenetic and ecological collections. As a token of gratitude for his work in the museum since 1933, the museum now bears his name. The confusion is caused by fossil of Dinotherium giganteum depicting on the background of the stamp. It is there just because it is the most impressive exhibit of the museum.

Another category of persons to mention is “Contributors to Paleontological science”.

People have found fossils since ancient times, but Paleontology as a science was established in the middle of the 19th century. The establishment was impossible without the help of scientists from many other fields such as biology, botany, and geology. Many politicians and wealthy persons supported the young science.

Modern biology, botany, and of course paleontology classifies all animals and plants according a taxonomic system proposed by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) in Stamp News 23

Milestones of Paleontology & related Philatelic items. the mid-18th century. The first stamp honoring Linnaeus was issued by Sweden on 2 June 1939.

The foundation of Paleontology is the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin (1809 -1882), who published his famous work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, in 1859.

The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life. In recognition of Darwin’s preeminence, he was one of only five 19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

Darwin’s work had far-reaching impacts on the development of Paleontology, Anthropology and many other Biology and Psychology related sciences.

There are many stamps of Darwin issued across the world to date. The very first stamp issued in Ecuador in 1936 (printed in 1935) to commemorate anniversary of his visit on

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Galapagos islands.

One of most notable contributors to establishment of Paleontology science in the United States was the third US President, Thomas Jefferson, who is shown on many American and international stamps. The first Thomas Jefferson stamp was issued in the US in 1851.

Jefferson is rightfully renowned as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, the Third President of the United States, and a champion of liberty. But he was also a central player in the beginnings of American paleontology. In addition, his participation occurred at a time when people were struggling with the ideas of fossils as evidence of past life, of extinction, and of an Earth far older than the Biblical account.

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Philadelphia. Beginning in 1849, these holdings were transferred to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where they are currently housed. This is the Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection.

Prince Albert I of Monaco, who had a keen interest in the origins of man and who founded the Institute for Human Paleontology in Paris that was responsible for a number of archaeological digs, is

depicted on many stamps from Monaco and some international posts. The first was issued in 1891 when his portrait appears on definitive stamps.

On 5 March 1949, the Monaco Post Office issued a set of 14 definitive stamps showing various areas of interest of Prince Albert I, who had a keen interest not only in fishing and sea/ ocean exploring, but also in the origins of man.

He founded the Institute for Human Paleontology in Paris that was responsible for a number of archaeological digs.

Four stamps of the set can be consider as related Paleoanthropology topic: • Portrait of Prince Albert I • Aurochs drawing from the famous Lascaux cave • The buildings of the Institute for Human Paleontology in Paris (face value 25f) • The Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique in Monaco (face value 40f).

All stamps except the portrait of Prince Albert I, are the first stamps in their category.

This is Part 1 of an article which was originally published at www.paleophilatelie.eu/ milestones . Part 2 will be in the November issue of Stamp News

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Iconic Melbourne Stamp Shop to Close The Iconic Melbourne shop of Shields Stamps and Coins Pty Ltd will be closing its doors for the last time on 15 November 2024, but meanwhile it’s business as usual at 52 Burgundy Street Heidelberg. After joining the trade in 1970, Tony Shields subsequently opened his own shop in 1979. After 46 years of continuous trading from his shops in Greensborough, Melbourne, Ivanhoe and now Heidelberg, Tony has decided to pass the business over to his son Michael, who will continue to trade online at www.shieldsstamps. com.au, shieldsstamps@gmail.com and by appointment at their new Greensborough office, Tony, Gary and Michael will continue to attend major shows in Australia and Asia, with stands booked at forthcoming shows in Hong Kong, Thailand, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Sydney and Toowoomba in the next 6 months. He will continue as a consultant.

Tony was recently elected a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society of London, and is hoping to devote more time to this passion and travel. He has a penchant for the history of early Antarctic exploration and has been a speaker on six Qantas Antarctic Flights, plus five expeditions there by ship. “I will not be totally leaving the business and the hobby which has been my life,” said Tony, “but I don’t want to work 100 hour

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weeks any more. We are not closing our business but we are changing the direction of it. I have always enjoyed face to face contact with so many of our lovely customers,and I will miss the daily personal contact, but the time has come to pursue some of my other interests in life. I want to thank all my loyal clients, many of whom have become close friends. So many of them have expressed great sadness at our decision to close our shop, and I share their feelings, but it is time for me to move on. The shop has been incredibly successful, and some days it is busier than it ever has been. Follow us on facebook and subscribe to our website”

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Collections, Lots, Packets & Mixtures 1. 1kg Australia mostly pre-decimal on paper mix, from KGV Commemoratives to early-Decimals, postmark potential and probably unchecked for varieties. A few off paper and maybe the odd KGV Head or Kangaroo. 1000’s, $179 (CMS1) 2. Bulgaria 1879 - 1998 in as new $90 Blue Lighthouse 64 black page stockbook. Organised by year, looks to be about 500 all different here.

Most are cto with many sets and good thematics. Let’s say $45 for the stockbook and 20c each for the stamps, very good value at $145 (CEA3) 3. Treasure Trove! Off paper lots to whet your appetite! All as received from Charities, estate lots and customer trade- ins at home and abroad. All of these are mixed together in order to give you the best variety available. Totally unchecked by us, each lot will contain roughly 800 - 1000 stamps and will be a wide variety of early to modern.

Choose from Australia, Great Britain, World, Br. Empire & Commonwealth or Western Europe. Priced at just around 3c per stamp, you cannot go wrong in our opinion. No great duplication seen either, must be good at $33 per lot, choose a variety of lots if you so wish. 3 lots for $95, 5 lots for $149, 10 lots for $279. (CEA6) 4. Retired part-time dealers stamp fair stock. Stamps on stockcards, in sets or all different selections, mainly used. Priced up to sell at between $1 - $12 per card. These were mostly priced up years ago, and could well be too cheap today! Choose from Australia or all World. $100 priced up for $49, $250 for $115, $500 for $219 (CEA7) 5. Hunter’s Paradise. From the many lots received from charities and other sources we are parcelling up random lots of 1kg to 10kg. Each 1kg lot will contain 4000 - 5000 stamps comprising on paper, off

paper, sets in packets or on stockcards, minisheets, covers etc. Choose from Australia, Worldwide, Br. Commonwealth & Empire, Western Europe or Great Britain. You can also mix lots to your requirements.

Price per lot is $149, 2 lots for $285, 5 lots for $675. (CEA8) 6. Single country wide ranging off paper mixtures, recently received, please enquire about quantities and prices. Countries available: Africa, all areas and periods, Americas, all areas and periods, excluding USA, Asia, all areas & periods, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France with Monaco, Germany, all areas & periods, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy with San Marino & Vatican, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, USA, Yugoslavia. (CEA9) 7. Ausipex 1984 in Burgund Official Padded Album. Contains wide variety of mint unhinged sets and minisheets, inc. the Australian Overprinted sheets, retail alone $75 - $100. 35 minisheets and 31 sets, plus many extras inc. covers, cards etc. Not complete, but a very good lot! $329 (CEA10) 8. Chile 1877 - 2001 in $50 as new Green Lighthouse 32 black page stockbook. Mostly postally used, some mint with good degree of completion to 1960. Sparse thereafter. About 200 stamps, mostly all different. Not often seen. Let’s say 25c each for the stamps and $20 for the very nice stockbook. $75 the lot. (CEA12) 9. WILD World Mix. One of the most amazing World off paper mixes we have seen. Very early to quite modern, mostly postally used, a few mint and a very few Australia. Rich in large & commemorative issues and a staggering variety. Little in the way of Australia that we can see. challenge anyone to produce something better. 12,500 to 15,000 per kg. Under 4c per stamp in the 1kg lot. 100g for $59, 250g for $139, 500g for $265, 1kg for $495 (CEA13) 10. 1953 - 2020 onwards. Almost the full QEII reign represented here plus a few earlier. Great Britain, just arrived from UK Charity. All on single close clipped paper, with many, many high values up to £5 noted and some of the very recent digital barcoded stamps also in the overall mix. Under 8c per stamp in the 500g lot. Around 6000 - 6500 to the kg. $87.50 per 100g, $199 per 250g, $395 per 500g. (CEA14) 11. Australia KGV Heads, mostly bundles of 100. Stated unsorted for postmarks, shades, watermarks, varieties etc. 1d Greens (900), 1½d Browns (100), and 2d Reds (1300). 2300 all up. 400 2d Reds stated to be inverted wmk., minimum cat. of $10 each for these, that’s $4000 alone! Cheap at 40c each, $920 (CO10) 12. Australia fine used decimal Definitive High Values, fine used with nice cds cancels, range from $2 to $20. 16 stamps Total face value $87, 1 lot for $29, 3 for $79, 5 for $115 (CJL1) 13. Channel Islands & Isle of Man, very nice wide ranging mixture on mostly close clipped single paper. Much very modern included noted some 2019 -2022 and some better values. Even saw the odd Alderney

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COLLECTIONS SALE OCTOBER 2024 in the overall mix. Very high count with approx.. 5000 per kg. Priced from just 4c a stamp. Per 100g $24.50, per 250g $59, per 500g $110, per kg $210. (CEA1) 14. Guernsey & Jersey, plus the odd Isle of Man, 100 different mint unhinged sets, covering a wide range of themes. Great value at under $2.50 a set. Price $249 (CEA2) 15. Australia FDC Collection, 1953 – 1986 in nice $50 plus quality wood grain effect Bulging Port Philip Album. Noted 1954 2/- Blue Olympics with different Royal Cachets x 3, 1956 Olympics set of 4 with pictorial cancel, 1966 Decimal Navigators set to $4 plus Birds & QEII on very light pencil addressed Royal covers, (could easily be carefully erased) 1970 Royal Visit APO unaddressed souvenir cover, cancelled Hobart, Melbourne Airport opening cover with 30c Cook, Small Cook Cover again with 30c Cook, cancelled 13.5.70 Coolangatta and many, many more. Also a few USA 1940’s FDCs. items in all. Very clean lot and dirt cheap at under $2.50 each. Price $425 (CEA5) 16. Australia Territory Annual Packs 2020 & 2021. These are highly popular and sell out FAST each year. Gorgeous material from these Territories - Cocos, Christmas Is, AAT and Norfolk. Includes all of the stamps & minisheets, inc. Chinese New Year issues. All well worth getting. Rarely available on the secondary market so soon after issue date. Price $259 (CEA5) 17. QV 1880s Victoria NAISH Newspaper Wrappers SPECIMEN set.

Possibly UPU Distribution. Rare unsevered SHEETS OF 4 with roulettes between each of this elusive issue overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ for BOTH values - seldom seen thus. EIGHT wrappers here. Usual bit of edge wear after 120 years, but fresh and extremely rare in uncut sheets.

SINGLE and badly defective Victoria SPECIMEN wrappers seen on eBay at $300 EACH from experienced sellers! See eBay: https://www. ebay.com.au/itm/373688143966 These might well be unique really as the UPU countries got 4 of each issue - hence this curious format.

Outside that probably not otherwise available in this interesting form.

Amazing lot, well under $250 each, price $1925. (CEA8) 18. Stamp News Australasia Magazine. We have back issues going back to 2019. Current cover price $9.95 per issue, subscription price $109.50 for a year. 4 complete years of this great magazine for under $4 a copy. 48 brand new 64 page full colour magazines for $189 (Individual years can be supplied at $55) (CEA10) 19. Jersey 1986-1989 24 different Booklet panes & sheetlets MUH on album pages. Price $90 (JE296) 20. Portugal 33 different sheetlets MUH on album pages. Price $200 (PT1) 21. New Zealand pre-decimal mint & used collection 1880 – 1965 in Green Lighthouse 32 black page stockbook. Noted Queen Victoria to 1/- 2nd sideface, range of 1898 pictorials inc. the following Mint Unhinged 1d, 2½d vertical pair & 4d these alone cat. £57 as hinged. 1900 Boer War 1½d mint with perf toning, cat. £75, 1913 ½d

Auckland Exh. Mint cat £25, 1935 Jubilee set Mint Unhinged, cat. £20 hinged and much more. 400 – 450 mostly all different. Nice clean lot for just $295 (CJA6) 22. Black Post Style Binder with large collection of Australia Imprint Blocks (70 +) mint with light hinge, also pre-decimal mint & used colln. 1913 – 1965 with others in mint blocks too. Noted near complete collection of KGV to 1/4d used, 71 stamps mostly all different, inc. 4½d Die II cto & OS Ovpts. Then 2d & 3d Harbour Bridge ovpt. OS, commercially used, Birds blocks of 4 to 2/6d, Anzac set blocks of 4, also PNG Birds complete to 10/- mint. Some duplication and a few condition issues, but overall a very nice lot. Price $495 (CJA12) 23. 2 x Red 32 page Lighthouse made stockbooks near new, with nice collection of earlier sets of thematics covering a wide range of themes. Mostly cto, some mint, 1960’s & ‘70s. A few condition issues, but well over 1000 different here. Stockbooks alone retail close to $50 each nowadays. Price $119 (CJA20) 24. Australia 1978 – 1997. Massive 5 Volume Complete Collection of Mint Postal Stationery Envelopes in as new PW Brown Padded Albums. No’s 1 – 258 Values 20c – 45c. Albums alone cost $250 new.

Almost impossible to re-create today. Price $465 (CLJ1) 25. BELGIUM POSTAL HISTORY: 1860-1960s bundle of covers & postcards ncluding 1868 Brussels-Paris with 30c brown (cover faults), 1871 commercial to Holland with 20c blue, 1879 & 1884 with 25c bistre, 1910 Brussels Exhibition postcard with tabbed 10c & Exhibition label, 1914 postcard to Scotland with tabbed 10c, 1948 bank cover to Australia with 3fr15c Textiles, 1940s attractively franked airmail covers to Australia (4); several others registered. (32 items) A fine lot at under $20 each, price $595 (CJL7) 26. World Wildlife Fund. 10 VOLUMES All in superb as new condition and well laid out in official WWF black padded binders and matching slipcases. I noted a complete album devoted to each of the following countries —Australia, Norfolk Island, AAT, Christmas Island, Cocos Island, New Zealand & Tokelau more than $100 mint face value from just these areas. Then 3 x mixed Europe and British Commonwealth volumes. There are extra mint and fine used stamps in the front of most albums, gutters and all sorts of extras. It would have cost more than $1,200 to put this collection together bargain lot for just $749 (CJL8) 27. Great Britain SPECIALIST COLLECTION of decimal high denomination Machins and Castles £1 & £1.50 values displaying various colour differentiations, or gum/paper types and associated changes in levels of fluorescence; high face value of stamps Fresh MUH. (40) Price $295 (CJL11) 28. MASSIVE Great Britain SELL OUT! Just bought a dealer stock 1971 – 2015 approx. OF MINT UNHINGED AND FINE USED. Includes commemoratives, definitives, booklets, post office packs and First Day Covers.

Clearing in all different lots at FACE VALUE! (Our choice of a mixture

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COLLECTIONS SALE OCTOBER 2024 of items) Lots from $100 to $5000. Or, your choice of years/types as above at 1.5 x Face value, let us know which. Great value, but no discounts on these lots. $20,000 face value plus available. (GBSELLOUT) 29. Runs of MUH New Issues 2005-2021. A collector was buying new Issues from Max Stern in recent years from Falklands, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia, British Virgin Islands, Tristan Da Cunha, Ascension and Bahamas etc. This is era that almost no dealers bought stock, and lots of collectors stopped buying New Issues in year 2000, hence most collectors do not have these, and neither do dealers! All still perfect MUH in the original new issue glassines.

No idea if they are 100% complete for the period but we’d guess so.

Only FULL sets and mini sheets etc. (CAP5) 30. Falkland Is. 2005 – 2021, 34 sets inc. minisheets Cat. £430 plus, price $585 (CAP5a) 31. South Georgia 2008 – 2021, 33 sets inc. minisheets Cat. £600 approx. price $795 (CAP5b) 32. Bahamas 2010 – 2021, 33 sets inc. minisheets Cat. £380 approx. price $510 (CAP5c) 33. Br. Virgin Is. 2014 – 2020, 6 sets & 1 large sheetlet Cat. £85 approx. price $115 (CAP5d) 34. Br. Antarctic Territory 2014 – 2021, 25 sets inc. minisheets Cat. £525 approx. price $710 (CAP5e) 35. Ascension 2008 – 2020, 26 sets inc. minisheets Cat. £365 approx. price $490 (CAP5f) 36. WORLD - ACCUMULATION OF COLLECTOR’S DUPLICATES MOSTLY OFF-PAPER, PREDOMINANTLY AUSTRALIAN DECIMAL, WITH BETTER VALUES. SOME PARTIALLY SORTED INTO PLASTIC CONTAINERS, ALSO KGVI & QEII PRE-DECIMALS MANY SORTED BY ISSUE INTO MATCHBOXES, PLUS FOREIGN INCLUDING GB & SOUTH AFRICA. HUGE QUANTITY TO WORK THROUGH. (MANY 1000S). Heavy lot, price $595 (CEJ3) 37. Jersey, 25 different Mint Unhinged sets $49 (CJE8) 38. Great Britain, 25 different decimal Mint Unhinged sets $49 (CJE9) 39. South Africa, 25 different decimal Mint Unhinged sets $49 (CJE10) 40. South Africa, 25 different decimal Mint Unhinged minisheets $49 (CJE10a) 41. South Africa, 25 different official un-addressed fdcs, $49 (CJE10b) 42. South Africa Homelands, 25 different Mint Unhinged set $49 (CJE10b) 43. South Africa Homelands, 25 different official un-addressed fdcs, $49 (CJE11a) 44. Scouting & Guiding covers, mostly Australia. Nice range of 25 covers and other bits & pieces covering 50 years 1948 – 1998. Includes Imprint Blocks of 4 of the 2½d x 5 also Yarra Brae & Greystanes hexagonal postmarks. Several other pictorial pmks. & 3 signed covers: Eleanor Manning, who from 1955 to 1962 served as the chief commissioner for

Girl Guides in Australia. She was the first Australian elected to the committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, a position she held from 1960 to 1969, also Charlotte Renshaw Jones Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides for Australia 1978 and Raymonde Read, N.S.W. Guides Commissioner, 1973. Fascinating lot but with some condition issues on some. Cheaply priced at around $5 each. $135. (CJE16) 45. Witches Brew! Worldwide off paper, good sorting lot, about 2500.

Good value at around 3c a stamp. $75 (CJE18) 46. Australia “Junk” Box. Stamps, albums, stockbooks, Hagner pages, Covers, loose stamps on & off paper. You name it, it may well be included! Must be at least 15 - 20,000 stamps in a 20kg box for $550.

Half size 10kg for $279. A great sorting lot. (CMS1) 47. Australia Decimal Official Un-addressed FDC’s 1980 - 1988 just 50c each! Way, way below face value. 100 different for $49 (CMS3) 48. Australia decimal 1st Day covers 1967 - 1991. Massive new issue dealer’s stock of official mainly unaddressed covers in 4 giant brown padded ring binders on approx. 200 Hagner or similar stockpages, some double sided. Binders and pages alone would have cost around $450 - $500 new. Estimate 750 - 1000 covers, from 1 - 10 of each.

Much better spotted like Living Together sets, booklet panes, ATM triangulars x4, $10 Gardens x 4, Minisheets, Se-tenant strips and blocks, some AAT plus just a few Aerogrammes, Maxi-cards and PSE’s. Great value for a hoarder or re-sellers at $625 the lot. (CMS3) 49. Australia Carton Lot Decimal FDC’s 1974 - 2007 approx. Mostly Official Post Office unaddressed covers. Huge variety, some duplication but very wide variety. Great to soak off for fine used sets or just collect as is. Got to be worth 60c each. Weighs nearly 3kg. Approx 500 for $295, half lot for $150. 3 lots available. (CMS12) 50. Australian Territories and Pacifics fine used collection in Blue Padded Ancol Album, 1940 - 1990. Includes Fiji, Norfolk Is, Pitcairn Is, Nauru & Papua New Guinea. Most are fine used light corner cds, with almost a complete collection from decimals onwards. Must be 350 - 400 complete sets inc. all of the long definitive series. Very cheap at $749 the lot. (CJL5) 51. Hong Kong 1862 – 1926 on album page & Optima stocksheets, mostly fine used. QV to 30c, KEVII to 30c & KGV to $2. Generally clean lot with some private perfins. Cat. £690 plus. 73 stamps. Price under $6 per stamp, $425 (CMAP4) 52. United Nations New York UNO Flags Maximum Cards, each with large coloured flag of the country and relevant stamp with FDI cancel.

16 different comprising Barbados, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorus, Canada, China, Great Britain, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Peru, Senegal, Somalia & Sweden. Price $96 (3 available) (CMAP9) 53. Stack of 33 diff. 1960’s/70’s Bulgaria Illustrated unaddressed FDC’s.

Don’t see these around much these days. Some good themes inc. Paintings, Madonna & Child, Wrestling, Circus, Knights in Armour, Olympics,

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COLLECTIONS SALE OCTOBER 2024 1966 World Cup Soccer, Christmas, Javelin, Running, Ski-ing, Ice Hockey, Ice Skating, Swimming etc. Priced under 90c each, $29 (CMAP13) 54. World mostly pre-1950 off paper, just arrived from overseas charity. Ex. Deceased estate. Appears mostly foreign with some Br. Empire. Great looking mixture with large & small stamps, and bound to be some good finds I would think. About 1000 for $110, 2500 for $259 few lots only. (MN55) 55. Similar to above but about 50% Br. Empire, same prices as above.

(MN55a) 56. Australia High Values off paper, mix of decimal and pre-decimal, all above letter rate at time of issue values to $5 or $10. About 12,500 to 15,000 per kg. 100g for $195 (NM2a) 57. World off paper, ever popular. Yours to sort, not soak! Huge variety of large & small, early to recent, and enormous count with 12,500 to 15,000 per kg. 100g for $27.95, 250g $66.50, 500g $129, 1kg $275, 2.5kg $650, 5kg $1235 (NM2a) 58. Australian States, new lot just arrived, unchecked for perfs, shades, wmks. etc. 50 different for $59, 100 different for $99. May contain OS Overprints and perfins. (PM124) 59. Germany off paper, mostly West Germany. Mix of small & large, 100g (approx. 1500 stamps) for around 4c a stamp. $59 (PM124) 60. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 3d Kangaroos x 56 better than usual examples! Cat $1,660 - Part of the amazing ‘Townsville Hoard’, 3d Roos – selected copies all circle cancels’ on a Hagner page. They are all soaked free of hinges, and hence were likely were sourced from mail around time of issue. Here we have a Hagner of 56 copies. All GUARANTEED to be the scarce 1913 First Watermark - not the far cheaper later Third Watermark. Lots of superb dated cancels. This was the WWI issue, and perfs and centering are always all over the place on these of course, and most encountered have machine cancels often the brutal, boxed, parcel KILLERS. Many superb stamps here. ALL THREE of the different main ACSC shades are here – and unchecked by us for the many plate varieties etc. A lovely little hoard to tuck away, you *NEVER* see these in quantity in decent shape. ACSC $30 each, in each shade = $1,660., less than 20% cat. at $319 (CSE1) 61. Aust+AAT extensive used Decimal collection 1966-2010 on 166 Hagner or Prinz pages (some are double sided) just $389. Virtually complete, with values to $10. Very clean lot. Heaps of Mini Sheets/ Sheetlets, strips of 5, se-tenant pairs, and both peel and stick, and normal gummed stamps, of many issues. Must be about 3500 to 4000 plus, all different here. Previous owner retail stated to be $920 for the stamps alone. The EMPTY pages retail about $290 and these are as new! Added to the retail of the stamps, we have $1,200 plus replacement value here. A superb ‘instant’ collection of these very popular issues for someone to continue with, and to complete them 100%. The lot for only $389 (CSE2)

62. Battered old 1918 Rapkin ‘VICTORY’ WWI, Worldwide album.

Countries A to Z. Same very useful in here - seems not much added to for 100 years or so. SG stamps are correct cat about £600=$A1200 alone. Usual VERY mixed condition throughout, typical of these Century old basic world collections. Has been partially raided in places, decent ranges in Austria, Belgium, France & Colonies, Germany, GB with Seahorses to 5/-, Hungary, India, Japan, Poland, Portugal & Colonies, Spain, Sweden, USA etc. $159 (CSE3) 63. Great of World REGISTERED labels on 28 Prinz stock pages. One man’s lifetime accumulation, sorted per country on a stack of as new pages - themselves of quite some value EMPTY! Many clearly scarce types and provisional and hand stamped and handwritten names etc. Impossible to source elsewhere in one group. Includes a block of 25 BLANK office Australia, R6 blue labels numbered 0001 - 0025, but nearly all are foreign - seldom offered material. Must be 1000 or more here many different towns and/or types. Noted decent ranges of Iraq, Italy, Nigeria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Dubai, Thailand, Norway, El Salvador, Hungary,Tanganyike, Kuwait, Malta, Japan & much more. Veyr cheap at around 20c each! $195 (CSE4) 64. Amazing AAT Collection 1988 - 2001 housed in 4 top quality Gibbons Red Springback Albums. 2 x Senator and 2 x Philatelic.

Comprises mint unhinged sets, minisheets and sheetlets, plus sets of Base FD Covers, Postcards and Maxicards. Appears complete for the period with se items in blocks of 4. Also Mawson’s Hut souvenir items, signed cards & cover to stamp designer etc. 360 plus distinct items, with very high original cost, face value and retail. Beautiful! Less than $5 per item. $1795 (CSE5) 65. Straits Settlements, Malaysia huge mainly usedcollection on leaves in Black Arch Lever folder. Commences 1892 with Straits x about 100, values to $1, then a whole page of tigers to 50c, 35 to 40 here. Good degree of completion in Malaysia then to about 2005, then lots of States with much earlier, values to $1, and a few Japanese Occupation issues. 2400 - 2500 here, mostly all different. Has to be worth 20c a stamp. $489 CMD2) Australia 1913 – 2008 on Seven Seas Hingeless Pages and on Hagners plus some homemade, in 5 ring binders. Kangaroos & KGV Heads are sparse, with values to 2/- & 1/4d respectively.

Noted 1914 6d Claret Kookaburrra cto. Later includes most KGVI values to £1 Robes & £2 Arms mint unhinged or used, then QEII Pre-decimal mint unhinged, near complete to £1 1953 - 1965. (Navigators are used, with 10/- & £1 White Papers) Decimals are near complete fine used, some unused 1966 - 2008, with some minor duplication (no more than 2 of anything) Noted a full set of 2006 Commonwealth Games fine used. Also many Internationals. A fine lot, with 1000’s of stamps neatly organised. Very good value at $1195 (CMM13)

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Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for October 2024. This month’s column looks at the Queensland 1909 postal card suitable for hand-painting and Australian new issues.

Cobb & Co Postal Cards Two postal cards (Figures 1 and 2) were issued on 13 August 2024 for the centenary of the last Cobb & Co. coach Service. On 14 August 1924, after 70 years of transporting passengers, goods and mail across the nation, Cobb & Co. ran its last horse-drawn coach, on service 177, from Surat to Yuleba, Queensland. Cobb & Co. began in Victoria, in response to the gold rush of the 1850s. The cards were issued in the small format and sold a set for $4.50.

Koalas Postal Cards Three postal cards (Figure 3) were issued on 20 August 2024 supporting World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (Figure Figure 1 Postal Card showing Cobb & C0 Coach at Yuleba 1909-1910 4) in its goal to double Figure 2 Postal Card Showing Cobb & Co Coach Crossing the Balonne River the number of Koalas in Flood 1917 across eastern Australia by 2050. The cards were lian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island issued in the small format and sold a set for $6.75.

Studies (AIATSIS), a research and research funding agency of the Commonwealth Government AIATSIS Stamped Envelope based in Canberra. The cachet on the envelope A stamped envelope (Figure 5) was issued on 16 shows Dadikwakwa-kwa - shell dolls produced by th July 2024 for the 60 anniversary of the Austrathe women of the Anindilyakwa Community from 40 Stamp News

Ian McMahon Antarctic Postal Cards Four postal cards (Figure 6) were issued on 13 August 2024 showing Antarctic seals: Leopard Seal, Crabeater Seal, Ross Seal and Weddell Seal. The cards were issued in the small format and sold a set for $12.

150th Anniversary of the UPU: Specimen International Reply Coupon (IRC) for Canberra Stampshow 2024 To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the UPU, a Specimen International Reply Coupon (Figure 7) has been produced by the UPU for Canberra Stampshow 2024. As a specimen the IRC cannot be exchanged for stamps. The IRC has been released in a folder (Figure 8) The IRC Copies can be obtained from https://canberrastamps.org/ wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CanberraStampshow-2024-IRC-ORDER-FORM-A. pdf.

the Groote Archipelago in the Northern Territory.

The doll shells are a unique practice of the Anindilyakwa women. The women who create and care for them consider them to be alive, keepers of spirits and ancestors. Traditionally used as inter-generational learning aids for literacy, numeracy, kinship systems and women’s health, the dolls are also known to provide guidance through dreams, answering questions and giving advice. They hold sacred knowledge and keep stories safe for future generations. Designed by Jason Watts, Australia Post Design Studio and sold for $1.75.

Queensland Cards ‘Suitable for Hand Painting’ During 1901 after Federation, the Commonwealth Postmaster General’s Department was established reporting to the Postmaster-General, a minister in the Commonwealth Government. The head public servant in the Department was know as the Secretary. The six colonial post offices became divisions of the Commonwealth department with their heads

Figure 3 Young Koala Postal Card Above: Figure 4 Front of Koala Postal Card with WWF Logo Stamp News 41

Postal Stationery known as Deputy Postmaster-Generals (DPMGs).

The establishment of a unified Commonwealth post office was a gradual affair. This was exacerbated by the need for the Post Office to maintain six sets of regional postal stationery (and adhesive stamps) for each of the six states which were valid only in that state.

By 1908, the printing of postal stationery of most Figure 5 AIATSIS 60h Anniversary Stamped Envelope of the regional issues had Below : Figure 6 Weddell Seal Postal Card been consolidated in the Commonwealth Stamp Printing Branch in MelThis request provoked a range of responses bourne. The postal statiofrom the DPMGs of the various states, depending nery of New South Wales and Queensland, howin part on the arrangements for postcards in each ever, continued to be printed by the government state and whether the cards were to be printed by printers of those states. the Commonwealth Stamp Printer in Melbourne On 17 December 1908, the Secretary of the or the local state government printer. The ‘card Postmaster-General’s Department (Head Office) for hand painting’ or ‘artist’ postcards issued for in Melbourne asked the Deputy Postmasters-Geneach state have been the subject of much discuserals (DPMGs) in each state about the desirability sion in the philatelic literature over many years of providing “white official postcards in order that as collectors have tried to identify which card they may be more suitable for hand painting”, the from each state was the ‘artist’ card. The story of cards to have a rough or ‘matte surface’. the ‘Artist Card’ for each state is different. This article follows the story for the Queensland cards.

For Queensland, up until 1908 there had been relatively little change to the postal stationery issued for use in that state.

On receiving the request from ‘Head Office’, the Queensland DPMG sought advice from the [Queensland] Government Printer. The postcards in use in Queensland at the time were the 1906 pictorial postcards with views on the front and a four-line heading (Figure 9). The cards were printed on a buff card in a 42 Stamp News

Ian McMahon Head Office agreed to the issue of ‘white postcards with rough or ‘matte’ surface suitable for hand painting’ on 15th April 1909 but made it clear that the issue in Queensland would be limited to £30 worth of cards in Queensland amounting to 7,120 postcards. (£50 in New South Wales and Victoria, £30 in South Australia and Western Australia and £20 in Tasmania). The cards were printed and distributed to the GPO Brisbane and 15 country post offices in Queensland on 25 November 1909 with each country post office receiving 240 postcards. Local post offices advertised the availability of the cards in local Figure 7 Specimen UPU 150th Anniversary IRC for newspapers. A typical advertisement is shown Canberra Stampshow 2024 (Figure 11) from the Queensland Times (IpsBelow : Figure 8 Cover of the Folder for the Canberra wich) 27 November 1909 which reads: POSTStampshow 2024 IRC CARDS FOR HAND-PAINTING The Postmaster-General has approved of the issue of a post-card on plain white card-board, suitable range of colours. Once ‘hand painted’ these cards for hand-painting etc. These cards may now be would have had no space for correspondence. The purchased at the General Post-Office and the prinissues for most other states included ‘plain’ cards cipal country post-offices. We learn that the issues which could simply be printed on a ‘white matte’ will be extended to all post-offices as the postmaspaper to meet the request from ‘Head Office’. ter’s requisition for them in order to meet public The Queensland Government Printer replied that requirements. The post offices which received the the extra cost of using ‘white’ paper for printing cards were the GPO Brisbane, Toowoomba, Dalby, Queensland postcards would range from 9d to 1/9 Gympie, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Rockhampper 1,000 depending on the quality of the card. ton, Bowen, Cairns, Mt Morgan, Ipswich, Charters Samples were provided (Figure 10). With over Towers, and Warwick and most likely Townsville 750,000 1d postcards issued in Queensland in and Gladstone and possibly, based on its population 1908 that would mean extra costs of £28-2-6 to at the time, Roma. £65-12-6 depending on the paper chosen.

He also noted that they had a large supply of the buff-coloured postcards on hand, and a large supply of the same card on order, and that the attached samples have been tested for hand-painting by their artist with satisfactory results.

Interestingly, the Queensland DPMG had interpreted the request as meaning that all future postcards should be printed on ‘white paper’, which was not the intent of the request. Also, the samples provided, while lighter in colour than most of the buff card used for the pictorial cards, were hardly ‘white’ and could best be most generously described as ‘cream’.

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Postal Stationery There was little demand for these cards with only Dalby and Toowoomba having a marked demand for the cards and requiring further supplies.

In July 1910, the Queensland DPMG asked ‘Head Office’ if given the very limited demand they should produce more of the cards. He didn’t receive a reply until 30 March 1911 when they were advised that ‘no further issues of these cards be obtained’. Some of the states had large unsold supplies of their ‘cards for hand painting’. Head Office suggested on 5 February 1913 to these Figure 9 1906 Pictorial Card with Commonwealth of Australia states that they should advertise the heading cards availability in the press (someBelow : Figure 10 Paper Sample 1 from the Queensland Governthing which the Queensland DPMG ment Printer had already done. On 17 February 1913, the Queensland DPMG replied Over the period 1909-1911 a number of ‘plain’ that ‘I have the honour to inform you postcards with no view were issued using the that none of these cards are now held in stock here’.

Queen Victoria Sideface Indicium with numerals Later on 19 November 1913, states which still had in four corners. (See: Queensland: Queen Victoria copies were asked to sell them as ordinary cards ‘Numerals In 4 Corners’ Postal Cards 1908-1912 For Queensland, all of the cards had been sold by https://postalstationeryaustralia.com/wp-content/ February 1913 (and most likely much earlier). The uploads/2023/08/qld-pcs-1909-1912-consolidated7,200 cards produced represented less than 1% of V3-r.pdf.) The period appears to have involved a the annual production of 1d cards at the time, so it number of ‘innovations’ in postal card design as the clear that the card would be scarce. Unfortunately, Queensland issues moved from the use of the 1906the information available to us does not enable the 08 pictorial cards to the issue of ‘plain cards’ with Queensland Artist Card to be identified. At the time no illustration and the ‘more modern’ 1910 cards of the request from ‘Head Office’, the postcards with black and white views on the reverse including being issued in Queensland were the 1906 pictorial various ways of dealing with changes in regulations postcards on buff paper. which allowed correspondence to be written on the left-hand side of the front of the card.

Possibilities for the artist card include the 1d Queen Victoria Sideface with Numerals in Four Corners Postcard with 4 Line Heading on cream paper (Figure 12) use recorded by 16 March 1910; a very scarce card with only about four used cards known. In addition, three of the cards are known used from Gatton which is near Toowoomba which had the largest sales of the artist cards and the 1910 Divided Front Issue (Figure 13), single used copy 29 December 1910. It is also possible it was a card which has not yet 44 Stamp News

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Above : Figure 11 Queensland Times (Ipswich) 27 November 1909 Advertisement for ‘Hand Painting’ Postal Card Figure 12 Queensland 1909 1d Queen Victoria Sideface Postal Card with Four Line Heading Front Postal Card been recorded. Another card issued in this period had the fourth line of heading removed. This card is reasonably common but appears to have been issued in the later part of 1910. In late 1910 a post card with ‘address’ added to the heading was issued on very white paper. Approval for this card to be issued on white paper was approved by Head Office on 17th October 1910, too late for the card to be the ‘Artist Card’ Any ideas?

2025 International Exhibitions The first FIP exhibition for 2025 will be URUGUAY 2025 Specialized World Stamp Exhibition, which will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the declaration of independence of Uruguay and will take place from 17-22 February 2025, at the MACA Museum in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Contact Geoff Kellow geoff@brusden-white.com.au for more information. Australia has been invited to enter Europhilex 2025 which is due to be held in Brimingham, United Kingdom from 8-11 May 2025. This exhibition is a European international exhibition to which Australia has been invited. Further information from Geoff Lewis, glewis@custom-made.com.au.

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Greetings from Great Britain The August 2024 Tower of London issue Hello, Perhaps you have seen this recent issue from Royal Mail, The Tower of London set of 3 se-tenant pairs as shown on this cover from Buckingham Covers Fig 1 ( https://www. buckinghamcovers.com/ ) Rather nice, and if like me you have visited the Tower of London, they might bring back good memories for you. I have read the material Royal Mail published to accompany this issue and was absorbed in the detail. There is plenty of it on the Royal Mail website, in various stamp magazines and blogs, for example, the Norvic Blog at https://blog.norphil.co.uk/2024/08/ raise-new-flag-stamp-at-tower-of-london.html - scroll down for the issue details - and also of course the issue detail that is included in the Royal Mail Presentation pack.

I won’t repeat it all here because there is so much to read and enjoy, perhaps just remembering the

Figure 2 history many of us will have learnt at school. But I will very briefly try to, or at least start to, explore one other aspect of this issue. The postmark cancel opportunities.

Figure 1 is the Buckingham cover of the 3 setenant pairs. Note the postmark.

The two first class stamps show the White Tower and the Yeoman Warders. The £2 pair show Tower Green and the King’s House which I clearly remember walking around, and the Traitors Gate is shown on the lower stamp in the pair. The third pair shows St John’s Chapel and then one of the Ravens which are always present at the Tower and which Buckingham Covers decided to use in their First Day Cover design.

This next cover (Figure 2) is the Royal Mail deFigure 1

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Figure 3 sign. A pleasant presentation in my view. And with a special handstamp.

Look at the postmark, the postal cancel. Royal Mail issued this First Day cover with a number of different postmarks, 10 as far as I am aware and there were others that could be obtained from other sources. If you collect First Day Covers and with the different postmarks you have a challenging and perhaps expensive task ahead!

The postmarks I am aware of include, a Tower of London postmark, A Yeoman Warder’s postmark, a Ravens postmark, a postmark showing Traitors Gate and another showing St John’s Chapel. Also you might find, a Crown Jewels postmark, A Royal Mint postmark, a Menagerie postmark, an Execution site postmark and a Prisoners

of the Tower postmark which apparently shows Anne Bolyn and Guy Fawkes.

But what is the postmark on the Royal Mail cover in Fig 2?

Ok I will help you. This is the special handstamp cancel 15987 from Badger Philatelics Ltd in Bournemouth. It is one of 6 more special postmarks. So, unless I have misunderstood (and I may have double counted as one source I read had only 13 cancels) that now makes 16 special postmarks available. A challenge for the First Day Cover / postmark collector, surely.

The postmark on Fig 1 is 15983 from Internet Stamps Ltd, (yes, Buckingham Covers from Folkstone) More stamps from the issue that I hope you will enjoy seeing are on the miniature sheet. ure 3 shows the Royal Mail miniature sheet on their First Day Cover and this copy has a very simple London postmark. This special postmark was only available from the London Special Handstamp Centre at the

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Greetings from Great Britain Figures 5 & 6

Mount Pleasant office in London, with the same cancel design available from the Northern Centre at Tallents House in Edinburgh.

If you are interested in reading more about the special postmarks / handstamps this page / site might be of interest. https://www.royalmail.com/ sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-07/2024-07-26-postmarks.pdf As for the stamps in the sheet they show some very interesting people. The two 1st class stamps show Princes Edward and Richard who were imprisoned in the tower in 1483, then Anne Bolyn who spent some time there before being beheaded on Tower Green in 1536. Just for note, Royal Mail write up says she was beheaded inside the Tower Walls which is correct of course but the actual location was Tower Green and I clearly remember 48 Stamp News

seeing the spot and “reputed to be” the chopping block on which she was beheaded.

On the £2.50 stamps are Lady Jane Grey who was imprisoned in the tower in 1553 and finally, Sir Walter Raleigh who was in the tower three times, in 1592, 1603 and 1618. Obviously didn’t learn his lesson the first or second times!

And two more covers, Figure 4, this shows the Crossed Keys Tallents House, Edinburgh postmark. And Fig 5, one of my favourite’s postmarks, “HALT Who Comes There?”. This quote is from the Ceremony of the Keys. This traditional ceremony has been performed every night for centuries at the Tower of London and involves the formal locking of the gates and is a significant part of the Tower’s history and security.

To close, let me show you the Buckingham First Day Cover with the miniature sheet (Figure 6).

The same cover design as for their se-tenant pair stamps and again with what I believe is the Traitors Gate postmark. Rather dramatic presentation?

I hope you have enjoyed seeing the stamps and the covers and the few postmarks. I welcome feedback and idea for future articles.

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The GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY In recent times we have heard about pirates attacking oil tankers and merchant vessels off the coasts of Somalia and Nigeria. They usually try to take over the ships which they subsequently sail to some port and then demand a hefty ransom to secure the release the ship and the crew. Iran has also carried out several acts of outright piracy in the Persian Gulf. Acts like these obviously disrupt trade between different parts of the world.

It is more than likely that many Stamp News Australasia readers have enjoyed watching one or all the five different movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean series starring Johnny Depp. In these films viewers will experience a lot of exciting adventures mostly set in the Caribbean area.

There are numerous words to describe this rather despicable profession. In addition to pirates these people are also known as buccaneers, privateers, freebooters, corsairs and a host of other names. Privateers usually had a sort of government commission to capture merchant ships sailing under the flag

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of an enemy nation. In the films we can experience captivating and highly entertaining adventures; in reality, pirates were most probably very unpleasant people with little regard for human life.

The period from about 1650 until about 1730 has been described as the Golden Age of Piracy and most of the books and films about this activity have been set in this time frame.

Now what was the favourite target for pirates in the Caribbean? The answer is Spanish galleons loaded with silver and gold from the mines in South America. Many were attacked on their way from ports in South America across the Atlantic to Spain.

In 1984 the Cayes of Belize released a 75c stamp (Fig. 1) depicting the Spanish galleon Santa Yaga circa 1750. The Cayes of Belize are a number of small islands located off the coast of Belize in Central America and it is more than likely that these islands served as hideaways for pirates.

The pirates often used rather small but fast vessels and they employed various methods to attack

Christer Brunström the heavy and slow merchant ships. Once they had managed to board a ship they captured the crew and then searched for everything of value. Sometimes the ships were allowed to continue their journey but in many cases they added the captured vessels to their fleets of pirate ships.

The Turks & Caicos Islands is a tiny Caribbean territory which has released several sets of stamps remembering the days when piracy made life difficult for the more peaceful merchant ships. On a 1971 2c stamp (Fig. 2) a pirate sloop has been depicted.

In books and movies pirates have a tendency of wanting to bury their stolen goods with the intention of returning at a later date to retrieve their treasures. For a variety of reasons they don’t always seem to have had the opportunity to return to the hidden treasure. In order to know where the treasure had been buried, they usually prepared a map (at least in pirate novels) where a cross indicates the exact location of the buried treasure.

Another stamp from the Turks & Caicos 1971 set (Fig. 3) shows a group of pirates burying their ill-gotten goods on some isolated island.

Many pirates and privateers have become extremely famous. It may come as a surprise but some pirates were actually women. One of the more famous female pirates was Mary Read who liked to dress as a man.

We don’t really know that much about Mary Read but she was born in England in a family who already had a baby boy who died at about the same time as Mary’s father. Mary’s paternal grandmother was unaware of the facts but she had promised to support her grandson by sending money to the family. Mary’s mother asked her to dress as a boy as she didn’t want the financial support to cease.

It seems Mary enjoyed dressing as a man and she even managed to join the British army. Exactly how this was done is unknown but she later married a Dutchman and moved to the Netherlands. Her husband passed away and in 1715 Mary moved to

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY the West Indies and still dressed as a man.

In 1720 she arrived in Nassau in the Bahamas which at the time was a centre of pirate activities in the Caribbean. This is where she met John Rackham who was in the process of equipping a pirate ship and assembling a crew.

Mary Read is depicted on a ½c stamp (Fig. 4) issued by the British Virgin Islands in 1970. This stamp must have been printed for the stamp trade as it is highly unlikely that there was a ½c rate. The design of the female pirate has a surprisingly modern appearance.

It seems everything went well for Rackham and his crew of pirates and later in 1720 they organised a party with lots of rum somewhere along the coast of Jamaica. They were surprised by the authorities and taken prisoners and all of them sentenced to death at the subsequent trial in Jamaica. When Mary Read heard the sentence she told the judge she was pregnant and she was sent to prison where she died the following year.

In 1971 Jamaica released a 15c stamp (Fig. 5) in

a set referred to as Pirates and Buccaneers. It shows the cover of a contemporary report on the trial and portraits of Mary Read and a second female pirate.

Many books have been written about pirates and privateers but the most famous one is probably Treasure Island published in 1884 by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). It has all the ingredients of a perfect pirate novel including a map of a buried treasure. In the book we meet a young lad called Jim Hawkins and one-legged Long John Silver with his parrot. Long John is a rather complicated person being both cruel and considerate at the same time. Silver of course is the invention of Stevenson’s lively imagination but he can still be seen on postage stamps along with many of his colleagues – real or imaginary. Most of these stamps have been issued by the many small Caribbean island nations where the pirates were once very active.

In 1969 the British Virgin Islands issued a 4c stamp (Fig. 6) depicting Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver. Stevenson had used one of the Virgin Islands as location for his exciting novel.

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We invite you to contact us with a view to consigning single items, studies, exhibits or collections for inclusion in this auction.

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Plate II (Clouds) SG 11 Unused & Superb

Plate I (Vertical Lines) SG 16 Unused & Superb

1/- Rouletted SG 6a with Cert ‘TEN PENCE’ on 9d SG 37a Surcharge Inverted

4d Deep Ultramarine Surcharge Omitted SG 68c

‘3 PENCE’ on 4d Double Surcharge SG 112a

Half-Lengths Ham Printings Framelines 1d SG 9a second-largest multiple

Hillman 2d SG 15 Unused

4d Perf 14-16 SG 35 Unused

4d No Watermark SG 54 pair

1857 envelope to Cologne, Rhenish Prussia

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